A NEW ERA: ZIMBABWE BEYOND CAB3
After months of public debate on the proposals to amend the Zimbabwe Constitution 2013, the prospects of those amendments happening without a referendum is slowly becoming a political reality in the minds of Zimbabweans. The Zimbabwe Constitution 2013 was promulgated after fierce political flaws. The state of Constitutionalism during Robert Mugabe rule the former president of Zimbabwe had deteriorated beyond redemption as some pointed out. Mugabe era was saturated with rampant disregard of Constitutional Democracy, Lack of Rule of Law, Allegations of Vote-Rigging, alleged political violence in election seasons, corruption and poor governance, to mention a few. This casted doubt on the political significance of the Zimbabwe Constitution 1980, founded just after independence. A situation befitting what HWO Okoth-Ogendo described as > Constitutions without Constitutionalism. In its pragmatic explication, a profuse reality of redundant constitutions, constitutionalism a...